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'What objective criteria do you use to diagnose depression and determine the severity? Do you document any improvement on subsequent visits?" Quickly review and score the PHQ-9 on your device. The PHQ-9 is the nine item depression scale of the Patient Health Questionnaire. The PHQ-9 is a powerful educational tool for reviewing the guidelines for diagnosing depression as well as selecting and monitoring treatment. There are two components of the PHQ-9: • Assessing symptoms and functional impairment to make a tentative depression diagnosis, and • Deriving a severity score to help select and monitor treatment The PHQ-9 is based directly on the diagnostic criteria for major depressive disorder in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual Fourth Edition (DSM-IV).'

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